If historians of philosophy are to be divided into those who focus on discontinuities and those who focus on continuities, I belong… — Gail Fine Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, historians have become so absorbed in detailed research that they have tended to neglect the job of building larger-scale maps of… — David Christian Copy Share Image
I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used… — Norman Davies Copy Share Image
I think what we should do as historians is understand. And we can have our own views about how things turned out,… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
History is gossip that's been legitimized, and that's really the case when you get into some of the Roman historians. Wow! They'd… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
“…historians will say 'We have a few documents to show how the common people lived at this time. Records lead us to… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Since history has no properly scientific value, its only purpose is educative. And if historians neglect to educate the public, if they… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic.… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
In the 1970s, family history wasn't yet thought of a serious field for study. I was terrified of being laughed at by… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Trying to look at the whole of the past is, it seems to me, like using a map of the world. No… — David Christian Copy Share Image
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Although this should not be so, historians reconsider presidencies based on how the presidents conduct themselves after leaving office. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Historians of literature like to regard a century as a series of ten faces, each grimacing in a different way. — Richard Ellmann Copy Share Image
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians. — Joseph J. Ellis Copy Share Image
Since Caesar, we know his historians are liars. The good writers get read. Bad history doesn't get read. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
“That is why historians surprise me. They seem to have no talent for the likeliness of any situation. They see history like… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
I've always been captivated by the Voynich Manuscript - the mysterious, 15th-century encrypted codex that still baffles cryptologists, linguists, and historians. — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Historians will likely give Obama credit for steering the country away from the brink of economic collapse in 2009. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
I think poets tell better history than historians. Historians lie all the time but the poets can get to truth of it. — John Cusack Copy Share Image
How well Shakespeare knew how to improve and exalt little circumstances, when he borrowed them from circumstantial or vulgar historians. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
Sputnik quickly became one of the three great shocks to hit America - historians say the equal of Pearl Harbor or 9/11. — David Hoffman Copy Share Image
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because I'm a writer trained in history that I've always assumed I would make mistakes in my drafts. Historians… — Alice Dreger Copy Share Image
“historians need to treat a participant’s own explanation of events with a certain scepticism. It is often the statement made with an… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Historians are a long way from being key workers. The best place for them is at home, reading their books and keeping… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
Historians evaluating George W. Bush's first term will focus on foreign policy and, most of all, 9/11. I think they will criticize… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have… — Barbara Amiel Copy Share Image
In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
Historians ought to be precise, faithful, and unprejudiced; and neither interest nor fear, hatred nor affection, should make them swerve from the… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Historians, only things of weight, Results of persons, or affairs of State, Briefly, with truth and clearness should relate; Laconic shortness memory… — James R. Heath Copy Share Image
